The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-18

sweetness of another's face has brough
about that discovery-leaves her
without his name as a shield and
buckler, he is either a treacherous
scoundrel unworthy the confidence
and respect of good men, or else he is
without proper appreciation of what
his obligations are These are my
sentiments, stripped of all
sentimentality, of all worldly gloss,
of all well authenticated rules, estab-
lished by custom of all the false edu-
cation of this nineteenth century of
ours, and | pray God that if l ever
have son that he may imbibe his
fathers views, at least on this one
point, and believe that the 'stoning Of
the woman and the letting of the man
go free should have persisted in Je-
rusalem as Christ meant it to perish
when He said Let him who is with
out sin cast the first stone. There
now Dolly are you satisfied" and
as Will ceased speaking
he came around to the table and with
considerable feeling kissed me good
bye. | sat still after he went out and
then thought about what Helen Fry
said about not "petting a man, and
then / concluded that she didn't know
my Will or else she would never have
said that, for all his teasing ways and
little vanities, Will rings true as gold
when put to the test.
The high hat nuisance is one of the
themes upon which everybody ex
presses an opinion, and as / remarked
to Will, / am in favor of abolishing
the whole wretched business. The
hat of to-day is not only a nuisance at
the theatre, but it is nuisance in the
street car, at church, in the street
everywhere. Not one woman in fifty
looks well in an extremely tall hat. A
tall woman. seems to have a sort of
bean stalk appearance which is dis
tracing to those who love small
women, and small woman with a
tall hat, somehow seems to be over
come much IN the same fashion that
an inverted small boy would appear
with his pas boots on, The prettiest
woman in the world would appear In
a ludicrous light if she should knock
her tall hat against a shirt sign
as / saw one do a
few days ago-and nothing
causes a husband to look so
dreadfully henpecked and generally
sat upon as to see him escorting a
woman whose high hat towers ike
a signal service sign above his own.
VIII went to the Cumberland Pres
byterian church a few evenings ago
to listen to the evangelist who has
been edifying the people from that
cOign of vantage and after he came
home, asked him, as women and es-
pecially wives will, "what the gentle
man looked like" "Oh," said he, 'I
saw his nose just once, Dolly, and |
guess it was pretty fair nose as
noses go, but. Mrs.-sat directly
in front of me and somehow when /
moved south, she had a southern in
clinatiOD, and when | moved north
she was mutually impelled, and when
| carried out the principles, which the
present administration is trying to
impress the Yankees with of neither
north or south, the state of the man
was worse than before" "Yes% I
said, laughing. Il suppose then she
wore high hat ?" ga high hat,
Dolly ?" said VIII, cit was
seven miles high and / couldn't help
wondering if it wouldn't make fine
pedestal for the Bartholdi girl. ''Oh
Willie, | said, "you shouldn't exag-
gerate but anyhow you could hear
through it and so tell me what the
Evangelist said" Couldn't do it
Dolly, was so interested in that hat
that somehow | couldn't get the evan
gelist where 1 wanted him and so I
gave it up-but say Dolly, do you
SUP pose if the HAT had toppled
over backward, it would have killed
me, it looked heavy enough and /
felt a real regret as | sat there be-
cause / hadn't my life insured for
yours and the children's benefit"
"Oh nonsense Willie," / answered
but you see dear girls, the high
hat really has a tendency to democrat
ize even the best of men, not except
ing the good husband of yours truly.
DOLLY,